The 3rd Phantom here next year. SEGA has announced another adaptation of Japanese anime Bleach for DS, although strategy RPG will be the genre, rather than fighting, and the author and creator of the cartoon, Tite Kubo, will supervise. He'll help create Bleach: The 3rd Phantom's entirely new and exclusive storyline, which
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By voice-activated exercise company. Voice-activated exercise specialist VPT Technologies has been spotted trademarking the names Fitness Hero and Workout Hero. Siliconera laid eyes on the patent, which mentions "a web-based videogame system to connect all users in a safe and secure global network".
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Tech shows peering, zooming, turning. An Australian student has been showing off several accomplished head-tracking demonstrations using videogames. Using Valve's Source engine, Toben Sko can peer around corners by tilting his head, zoom by moving closer to the screen, rotate the camera by turning his head and produce a gu
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Not at all like Monster Hunter. Namco Bandai has unveiled a PSP alternative to Monster Hunter called God Eater, which will be released in Japan this autumn. Like Capcom's game, God Eater has up to four friends battling together against increasing Goliath enemies either online or locally - sucking the life-force from them t
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Plus: N+ cheap on XBLA next week. N+ developer Metanet has shown the first video of its next physics-ruled project, Robotology. The studio also revealed N+ to be next week's half-price Xbox Live Arcade game. The Robotology clip depicts a wireframe humanoid dropping onto and sliding down a ramp along with two balls: one sma
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Fancy some stand-up comedy? Sony is testing the water on various ideas for PlayStation Home, in a survey that asks, among other things, whether you would like to see stand-up comedy as a type of streaming media for the theatre area. There's talk of the PlayStation Home space within PlayStation Home and what should be there
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Wednesday on Live, Thursday on PSN. EA has announced that Battlefield 1943 will be released on Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday and PlayStation Network next Thursday. A PC release, remember, will appear sometime in September. Battlefield 1943, which costs 1200 MSP (GBP 10.20 /
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The tech is good at armour, not hair. Gears of War's dad, Cliff Bleszinski, has thrown some light onto one of the most intriguing questions of this generation: why are all our modern videogame heroes bald space marines running around in rubble-strewn post-apocalyptic cities? "I just think that the technology of this gen
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In-game tweeting hits the beta. In Cryptic's latest roundup on the state of its superhero MMO, Champions Online, it mentions that it's adding an in-game Twitter system to the beta. The details of how it works are still under NDA, but we're guessing it will allow you to use Twitter without alt-tabbing out to your browser
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UMD a stop-gap until tech was in place. Sony Computer Entertainment chief product planner Naoya Matsui has revealed that a UMD-less PSP was always part of the handheld plan. "We'd planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very beginning," Matsui told Develop, raising the question of why Sony developed th
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Plus Red Baron, Monster Hunter, more. Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with several new downloadable games this week, including a pair of puzzle games and the latest take on The Punisher. Numblast (GBP 3.99 / EUR 4.99) is the first of the puzzlers, in which you have to arrange numbers on a grid to set off chain re
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Sengoku Basara 3 for 2010 release. A Capcom teaser site has revealed that the company is making a third game in the Sengoku Basara series, known as Devil Kings in the west. Sengoku Basara 3 will be released in 2010, according to the site, but no platforms are mentioned.
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Miyamoto doesn't think so, anyway. Judging by a snatched quote from Nintendo Power magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto has said the new Zelda will be a familiar experience, despite being the first instalment specifically built for Wii. "I don't think it's going to be that radically different," the veteran designer said (read by Aer
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Independence weekend special. Bethesda Softworks' brilliant post-apocalyptic role-playing game Fallout 3 will be half-price this weekend on Steam. The deal marks the annual Independence Day celebration across North America, where they still seem awfully pleased about shaking us off. Our teeth aren't that bad.
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Juarez! Tiger! Er, spares! Desperation! Do we play hot and muggy games when it's hot and muggy? I have warm (stiflingly warm) recollections of playing Far Cry through a projector at the height of summer in 2005, sweat dripping accurately down my back as I crept through the jungle, before giving away my position with a telltale sneeze that knocked the keyboard over and r
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Save over a hundred quid! 2K Games has bundled 20 games together on Steam for the budget price of GBP 35.99. Among them are BioShock, Civilization IV (plus expansions), Civilization III, Prey, Freedom Force and Sid Meier's Pirates! We make the combined total of all 20 games s
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2010 release for Platinum's DS space RPG. SEGA will release Infinite Space - the science-fiction RPG for DS from Platinum Games - in North America and Europe in spring 2010. The date appears at the end of a localised version of an animated trailer that has surfaced on YouTube. This is one of a series of short films orig
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Out here 13th November. Activision has told Eurogamer that DJ Hero, which costs over 100 of the Queen's pounds, actually represents "tremendous value". "We don't comment on our product pricing strategies," said the publisher, ominously. "However, we believe that DJ Hero will provide tremendous value for our consumers by de
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